#I mean that with great joy

[impossible-rat-babies]

it’s so funny that I went into veilguard not knowing a single thing about plot or the companions and picked the one who is ace. how did I manage that

[payasita]

gotta tell you I've kept going back to look at the UPA style drawings over and over today they just make me so happy (especially the thespius and clickclack. obviously. I am a predictable sap) anyway thank you it has been providing me free serotonin all day

AAA TYSM!!

also, HARD AGREE. it like. it Goes

It Goes. bright n colorful toony boys. the aesthetic timelines are close enough

[artuurle]

I really wanted to draw @clickety-clacker's Click clack and it ended up devolving really fast into sillies between their design and mine, apologies.

[kimtaegis]

LILACS BY THE SEA a music collection curated for @cordiallyfuturedwight Lilacs (Kayla) Playlist • Sea (Seokjin) Playlist song notes

cr. mahoneysuga, rawpixel, bts-trans, Diana Zviedrienė

[vynnyal]

Of all games why this one

[nonbinary-vents]

One really awesome thing about being a Jew is how widely accepted it is in our people that we all have very complicated and personal feelings about the idea of a god, or any sort of religious concept at all. I love being able to explore my own beliefs as a person who doesn’t believe in a higher power, and I fucking love seeing those beliefs represented in so many Jews, in so many theological Jewish sects and schools of thoughts, in so many centuries of Jewish history. Judaism is all about those in-betweens, it’s all about complex ideas and shades of greys and personal understandings of life

Above all else, there’s always a search in Judaism for meaning, for purpose, for the human experience. And wether that manifest itself into ideas of a tangible higher power, or some vague feeling of something making existence meaningful (like for me!) or anything in between or outside of that— it’s all accepted, it’s all genuine and okay and valid interpretations of Jewish beliefs. And it’s also accepted to not believe in any sort of spirituality or religion, or to not know, or to not care! We’re all just Jews and we’re all just walking through the world together! I just love it so much, words escape me when I think about it

[autisticaradiamegido]

thoughts on dave and aradia (<>)?

day 356

BIG fan tbh. in this house we love and respect timerails

truly yall read this log and tell me theyre not cute

[i-may-be-an-emu]

Channeling my inner Derek today by being transgender and outside

[vanessagillings]

Thank you so much to @staff for featuring my work on the radar not once but twice recently, and to the second follower who blazed my post this week.  I’m blown away by your support everyone, you’re all so sweet!  Thank you for liking and sharing my art 💛

[explomb]

Checking the bllk wiki honestly drives me insane because everyone registers as a similar height to isagi (≈5'9") but instead isagi is one of the shortest members of the cast and my perception of everyone's heights in relation to each other is wildly incorrect

[coollyinterferes]

The unmistakable sound of footsteps approaching begins to fill the air. Whoever is coming seems to have brought some company along…

They are getting closer… and closer… and closer…

…and closer…

……until..................

"Goooooood evenin'!!" Comes the loud greeting from a certain blond man. A big smile on his face and all.

"We beg your pardon for our prolonged absence. It was completely beyond our control..." Then adds the gentleman standing by his side, apologizing on behalf of both, offering a genuine smile along with the apology.

"...BUT! We're back!" And hopefully for good this time…

[grineerios]

i hope that every baby tenno ever knows that i'm not judging them for being new or not having a fancy fashionframe whenever i approach them in a relay or hub-

i promise i'm just looking at you and your profile with the widest most excited eyes ever, i'm just wayy too nervous to figure out what to say to you, and i don't want to be patronizing by asking if you want help ;w;

baby tenno, you are so so so cool- i'm so happy you're here, and i really hope you end up finding the same amount of enjoyment and community here that I have.

[burningcheese-merchant]

You are very cool I like your writing style I inspire to write as good as you 🥹🥹

Aw come on, flattery won't get you anywhere lol. Seriously though, thank you. I'm touched you would take the time to say this to me (and when anyone does, really). I don't actually believe myself to be that good at writing tbh, there's plenty of superior talent online and off. I've even read stuff on here and AO3 that made me downright hate myself lol. I'm just a clown with clown ideas, I'm happy there are people out there who like them

With that said, if I may offer a bit of writing advice despite not being qualified to offer it

Read. That's the best advice anyone can give you, I think. Read lots of books (real ones, not just fanfiction lol). If reading isn't your strongsuit, start small. Read something short and sweet, then eventually go bigger. Read classics, they're classics for a reason. Try out different genres (but maybe delve more into ones you like the most and want to write for). Get a feel for characters and dialogue and settings and the like. Understand different writing tropes. Learn from great authors, see how they made their stories work and why, see what inspiration and lessons you can take from them and their success (there is no shame in standing on the shoulders of giants, we all do it. Even the giants themselves). I've always been a bookworm my whole life, it's why I know so many words lol

Always make multiple drafts. You can half-ass the first one all you want (mine often tend to be just a series of points haphazardly strung together lol), then iron them out in the second, then refine the story and its contents more in the third. Keep going for as many drafts as is necessary. I average about 3 or so before I feel content enough with what I have to post it. I've posted first drafts before, but that only really happens when I'm possessed by demons and they won't leave until the inspiration dies down. It's a matter of making sure the story makes sense, the characters and dialogue seem engaging, there are no spelling errors, etc.

Please learn to spell lol. Not calling you illiterate in any way, I do just mean this as general advice. Grammar and syntax are very important in writing, don't forsake them. I comb through my works multiple times even after I post them just to look for stray typos (I can feel a vein pop out of my forehead whenever I find one, I hate typos so damn much and I hate when I accidentally miss them the first time I look). I know I talk like a fucking bozo on here but that's really just because I feel more silly and relaxed lol. I write actual research papers irl, I can assure you that my grip on language is far stronger than what is presented here (really, I just read a lot. More reading = better vocabulary)

Probably not the most detailed advice, but it's what helps me personally. Writing is a skill that takes practice to perfect; do it enough, with enough passion and the willingness to improve, and you will. I was not born knowing how to write, I just enjoy doing it for some reason lol. Believe me when I say my writing used to be abysmal even just a few years ago. It's just a matter of keeping it up. Do that and you'll turn out great in time.

Work hard, always seek to improve, learn from the masters. Do that and one day you'll be a writer worth admiring, and you'll look back and see that Merchant really wasn't so great after all haha

[marlynnofmany]

Today's FebFicFight is about someone flying as a dragon for the first time, and I am very pleased with that. I grew up among these hills, imagining flying off into them during countless long car rides. What is writing for, if not self-indulgent wish fulfillment?

[piebutt]

dragging the gf into dragon age was a mistake she spent a month watching me replay these games and getting into lore and dear god

veilguard is hurtin her

[flowering-darkness]

In a turn of events that probably surprises no-one, I am once again having a Reborn moment